Thanksgiving Week

While we try to remember to talk about how grateful we for the many ways God has blessed us throughout the year, this month we've been really focusing on the things for which we are especially thankful. We made a turkey and wrote things that we're thankful for on feathers to attach to our bird. Anna's favorite thing to be thankful for is bunnies!
We did a lot of food prep yesterday and then spent the evening with my sisters and their families. It was a pretty low key evening, so we could really enjoy visiting. The kids have such a blast together.

Anna was very excited to help us out with the food preparation yesterday. She loves to crack eggs (or at least help and watch), make bread with Papi, stir things in bowls, and get apples ready, and do some tasting (and smelling--she is really into smelling things lately). She's a pretty good little helper.


We were very excited to have guests over and do a lot of the dinner cooking. Matt did the turkey on the grill (California style!) It was quite an experience doing it in our cold weather with a little snow on the ground!
The turkey turned out fabulously and tasted great! Anna was a little apprehensive. She sat for the picture, but didn't like it much. When we asked her to smile she said, "I'm a little afraid of that." (She didn't eat any of the turkey--or too much of anything else on the table.)
We head to Matt's cousins with the extended family on Saturday for another celebration.